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Mokena’s waste water treatment expansion has earned a regional award for the Public Works Department.
The southwest branch of the American Public Works Association named the Mokena plan its local project of the year at a gathering last week at the Riviera Country Club in Orland Park.
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The completion of the $7 million project means that Mokena can meet the growing town’s water treatment needs for 8 to 10 years, village officials said.
The construction work, which increased the waste water treatment plant’s capacity from 1.65 million to 2.3 million gallons a day, began in June 1998.